Example sentences of "he know well [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does he know better than doctors , nurses and the other health service staff whose life work has been delivering the service ? |
| 2 | A woman he knew well before he began his affair with Marje . |
| 3 | He knew well that you opened the front door to walk into the kitchen . |
| 4 | He reached out for something outside his prison and found The Rights of Man , he concentrated on passages he knew well and summoned them up word for word . |
| 5 | As on the last occasion , he had chosen County Monaghan which was an area he knew well and adjacent to the Ulster border . |
| 6 | He knew better than to offer help , after all these years . |
| 7 | It has been argued that Napoleon III was influenced by the example of London , a city which at the beginning of his reign he knew better than Paris , for he had lived longer in it , and that the Bois de Boulogne and the Bois de Vincennes were the equivalent of London 's Royal parks . |
| 8 | He knew better than to contradict anything his uncle said . |
| 9 | He was a leading figure in social evolution — his second book , on the origin of civilisation as shown by the mental and social condition of savages , was published in 1870 , the year before The Descent of Man by his dear friend Charles Darwin — but he knew better than to talk of evolution in Parliament . |
| 10 | However he knew better than to put the thought into words . |
| 11 | Ex-Eton schoolboy Jonathan Barton was bullied but unlike Charles , he knew better than to take his complaint to the headmaster . |
| 12 | He knew better than to judge by appearances . |
| 13 | But there were some rules he knew better than she ever would . |
| 14 | He knew better than to expect a detailed answer . |
| 15 | Graham was only a little impatient , and he knew better than to try to hurry Slater up . |
| 16 | Come out wherever you are and let's get it over with " , but he knew better than that . |
| 17 | He knew better than to ask her the time ; she was edgy enough as it was . |
| 18 | Hereabouts , Beryl Love 's ashes must have been scattered beneath a rose bush , though he knew better than to think Ernie might have invested in a memorial plaque . |
| 19 | ( Then he knew better than me . ) |
| 20 | I saw him to the door and watched him pace away along the streets he knew better than most others in London . |
| 21 | Because he was on the spot , and had established a surprising , and surely almost heretical , chain of friendships there on the border , he thought he knew better than these older and cooler heads in London . |
| 22 | More than five years of rebellions and civil war had honed his instincts to a fine edge , and he knew better than to ignore them . |
| 23 | He knew better than to leave that behind . |
| 24 | Harry folded his arms , smiled as if he knew better and strolled about the room . |
| 25 | Okay in Italy on the marble it does work , but on the slate it you know it it has n't worked and I think various quarries have tried it and found out that it does n't work , and yet he assumed that he knew better and you know , little little things like that , you know he just seemed unwilling to learn or lis heed advice . |
| 26 | Health care will then be denied its proper role and that is clearly seen in the discharge of elderly people into the community and a point he knows well because he 's heard it from me before , without the necessary disabled facilities being in place for those elderly people and it is his department that decided to put the disabled facilities grant in the basic credit allowance to compete against over local authority priorities in that section . |